The criticism is not of Ronaldo at all, he's right where he should be, but the team isn't set up to get the best out of him. Anyone would play Ronaldo exactly like this, but they would have a lot more facilitators in the team to provide him enough on the plate. To be honest this team reminds me a bit of the uber-defensive setups Mourinho used to use in El Classicos where he would through multiple defensive midfielders on the pitch and usually it ended with Ronaldo looking really isolated and frustrated for most of the game. It's not a coincidence that Madrid filled up their team with more playmakers in the next few years and also had the emergence of Marcelo as a truly amazing offensive outlet and became a trophy winning machine.
No one criticize Ronaldo not being a great weapon counters, it's just that you don't have enough of an outball or the kind of smooth transitions that are required to get those attacks going in the most effective manner.
